Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Nature of Problematic Knowledge / MEYER, MICHEL -- Section I: Questioning and Philosophy -- 1. Toward a History of the Question / STRUYKER BOUDIER, C. . M. -- 2. Unanswerable Questions? / SCHLICK, MORITZ -- Section II: Questioning and Science -- 3. Questioning and Problems in Philosophy of Science: Problem-Solving Versus Directly Truth- Seeking Epistemologies / NICKLES, THOMAS -- 4. Questioning in Science / DILLON, JIM T. -- 5. Aspects of Problem Solving / GEORGE, F. H. -- 6. Questioning in Education / DILLON, JIM T. -- Section III: Questioning, Language and Discourse -- 7. The Interrogative Theory of Meaning and Reference / MEYER, MICHEL -- 8. Questions of Identity in Discourse / CARLSON, LAURI -- 9. "Knowing Whether", "Knowing Who", and Epistemic Closure / CORNULIER, BENOÎT DE -- Section IV: Questions and Reasoning -- 10. Question-Asking Fallacies / WALTON, DOUGLAS N. -- 11. Understanding Answers to Questions / LEHNERT, WENDY G . / STUCKY, BRIAN K. -- 12. Vain Questions / DRIVER, J. L. -- Section V: The Context of Questioning -- 13. On the Pragmatics of Answers / KIEFER, FERENC -- 14. The Epistemics of the Question-Answer Sequence and Its Psycho-Pragmatic Limitations / PARRET, HERMAN -- 15. Questioning in Conversation / STENSTRÖM, ANNA-BRITA -- Section VI: Questioning and Literary Rhetoric: Kafka as Example -- 16. The Parable, the Paradox, the Question / KLUBACK, WILLIAM -- 17. Kafka or the Existentiality of Questioning / MEYER, MICHEL -- Biographical Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum -- Index Rerum -- Backmatter